Re: [Gretl-users] about the gnuplot command in gretl
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Sven Schreiber wrote:
I have been observing the development of gretl for some time now,
and last week I started to dig a little deeper...
Thank you for the kind remarks.
now for something completely different: I'm having problems with
the following gnuplot command (within gretl, of course): gnuplot
verteilf sortiert --with-impulses --suppress-fitted { set style
data steps; }
In the resulting plt file, the part in braces does not appear,
although according to the manual (Aug2005) it should. Is that a
bug?
Yes, I suppose it is. The point is that gretl itself takes charge
of the basic plot parameters, so your "set style" command is
ignored. I'll have to think about the best way of (a) figuring
whether user-supplied material within { ... } should override
gretl's automatic plot configuration, and (b) actually implementing
such an override.
In the meantime, here's a workaround:
1) Create and display your plot in the gui program.
2) Click on the graph and choose "save to session as icon".
3) Go to Session/Icon view and locate the plot.
4) Right-click on the plot icon and select "Edit plot commands".
Now you really have control over what gnuplot does.
But I agree, it should be easier than that.
Allin Cottrell